# Routing question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/183818>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 21, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/183818 "2010-02-21T00:52:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dudebot)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/183818/1 "2010-02-21T00:52:15Z")

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I’m pushing my rails app to a server. My local development machine  
has localhost:3000/… as the working URL, but the server has it set  
up so that the URL points to a named directory, e.g. [server.com/dir](http://server.com/dir)

So when I push the app to the server, it finds the index just fine at  
[server.com/dir](http://server.com/dir), but when I click on a link, the “dir” drops out. For  
example, If I have a thingy controller, instead of pointing to  
[server.com/dir/thingy](http://server.com/dir/thingy), it creates the URL [server.com/thingy](http://server.com/thingy), and I get  
a “page not found” error.

Is there some way to set up routes to point to [server.com/dir](http://server.com/dir) as the  
base? Or is this some sort of no-no?

TIA,  
Craig

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**Author:** ![Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Dudebot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dudebot)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/183818/2 "2010-02-21T16:43:25Z")

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Sorry for this post–this of course turned out to be a phusion/apache  
configuration issue. Mea culpa. Although it’s really teaching me how  
important restful routes are 🙂  
Craig